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Corey Ford (April 29, 1902 – July 27, 1969) was an American humorist, author, outdoorsman, and screenwriter. He was friendly with several members of the Algonquin Round Table in New York City and occasionally ate lunch there.

Ford was a member of the Class of 1923 at Columbia College of Columbia University, where he edited the humor magazine Jester of Columbia and wrote the Varsity Show Half Moon Inn. He also joined, and was expelled from, the Philolexian Society. Failing to graduate, he embarked on a career as a freelance writer and humorist. In the 1930s he was noted for satirical sketches of books and authors penned under the name «John Riddell».[1]Theodore Dreiser was shown adopting the guise of a common workman building his newest and biggest novel from bricks and mortar. He reviewed Dead Lovers are Good Lovers as «Dead Novelists are Good Novelists.» Ford’s series of «Impossible Interviews» for Vanity Fair magazine featured ill-assorted celebrities, among them Stalin vs. John D. Rockefeller, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes vs. Al Capone, Sigmund Freud vs. Jean Harlow, Sally Rand vs. Martha Graham, Gertrude Stein vs. Gracie Allen, Adolf Hitler vs. Huey Long.

Ford published 30 books and more than 500 magazine articles, many of them marked with a gregarious sense of humor, a love of dogs and «underdogs.» He told many stories of the literary scene in the twenties, of headhunters in Dutch Borneo, of U.S. airmen in combat during World War II. He loved conversation and comradeship and was a great listener as well.

Biography[edit]

Though born and raised in New York City, Corey Ford fell in love with the outdoors generally and New Hampshire in particular. In 1952, Ford moved to Hanover, New Hampshire, the home of Dartmouth College, where he became an adopted member of the Class of 1921. His connection with the college lay mainly in his relationships with students. He was an advisor to the Dartmouth chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon (his fraternity at Columbia) and to several student publications. In addition, he helped to organize the Dartmouth College Rugby Football Club (or DRFC) and opened a gym in his home near the campus for students interested in boxing. When he died in 1969, he left most of his estate, including his house, to the rugby club with instructions to use the money to build a clubhouse for the team. After many years of political and legal wrangling, the 6,000-square-foot (560 m2) Corey Ford Rugby Clubhouse was completed and dedicated in September, 2005.

In an article entitled «Football for Fun,» written in 1959, he explained this affinity: «Perhaps you wonder how I came to take up rugby. Well, the fact is that rugby took up me. My home here in Hanover adjoins the college playing-fields; and so in the course of time it has been adopted as headquarters of the Dartmouth Rugby Club, an independent organization which has no home of its own. I am hailed as ‘Coach’ for want of a better title.»

In her introduction to The Corey Ford Collection in Dartmouth’s Rauner Library, Mildred C. Tunis wrote, «To countless Dartmouth men, the name of Corey Ford will bring back nostalgia for some of their most meaningful experiences as undergraduates when he was coach of boxing and rugby, a fellow Delta Kappa Epsilon, advisor on student publications, counselor, and friend.»

Eustace Tilley[edit]

Ford created the name Eustace Tilley for the dandyish, top-hatted symbol of The New Yorker magazine. According to Ford’s memoir, The Time of Laughter, the last name came from a maiden aunt and he chose the first name «for euphony.»

The Lower Forty Hunting, Shooting and Inside Straight Club[edit]

Corey Ford is perhaps best remembered for his monthly column, «The Lower Forty Hunting, Shooting and Inside Straight Club», which he wrote for Field & Stream for almost 20 years in the 1950s and 1960s. The column told about a fictional group of New England sportsman, detailing the club members’ adventures in and around the town of Hardscrabble, Vermont. The primary characters in the column were Colonel Cobb, Judge Parker, Cousin Sid, Uncle Perk, Doc Hall, and Mister McNabb. The columns have been anthologized into several books such as Minutes of the Lower Forty, Uncle Perk’s Jug, and The Corey Ford Sporting Treasury.

Bibliography[edit]

Books[edit]

• Forey, Cord (1925). Three rousing cheers for the Rollo Boys.
• — (1926). The gazelle’s ears. New York: George H. Doran.
• — (1928). Meaning no offense : being some of the life, adventures and opinions of Trader Riddell. Illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias. New York: John Day.
• Triplett, June (1929). Salt water taffy : or, Twenty thousand leagues away from the sea : the almost incredible autobiography of Capt. Ezra Triplett’s seafaring daughter. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
• Riddell, John (1930). The John Riddell murder case : a Philo Vance parody. Illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
• Forey, Cord (1931). Coconut oil. New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam.
• Riddell, John (1932). In the worst possible taste. Illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
• Forey, Cord (1943). From the ground up. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
• — (1943). Short cut to Tokyo : the battle for the Aleutians. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
• War Below Zero: The Battle for Greenland, 1944, with Colonel Bernt Balchen and Major Oliver La Farge
• Cloak and Dagger, 1946
• The Last Time I Saw Them, 1946
• Horse of Another Color, 1946
• A Man Of His Own, 1949
• How To Guess Your Age, 1950
• The Office Party, 1951
• Every Dog Should Have A Man, 1952
• Never Say Diet, 1954
• Has Anybody Seen Me Lately?, 1958
• You Can Always Tell A Fisherman(but can’t tell him much), 1958
• The Day Nothing Happened, 1959
• Guide To Thimking, 1961
• What Every Bachelor Knows, 1961
• Minutes of the Lower Forty, 1962
• And How Do We Feel This Morning?, 1964
• Uncle Perk’s Jug, 1964
• A Peculiar Service, 1965
• Where The Sea Breaks Its Back, 1966
• The Time of Laughter, 1967
• Donovan of OSS, 1970 (posthumously)

Essays, reporting and other short pieces[edit]

• Ford, Corey (February 21, 1925). «Highlights». The New Yorker. 1 (1): 15.
• — (February 28, 1925). «Highlights». The New Yorker. 1 (2): 23.
• — (March 21, 1925). «Highlights». The New Yorker. 1 (5): 26.
• — (March 28, 1925). «Inspiration». The New Yorker. 1 (6): 31.
• — (May 2, 1925). «Bearding the Leyendecker : a study of creative art in New York». The New Yorker. 1 (11): 20.
• — (May 9, 1925). «Blotters : an absorbing medium : a study of creative art in New York». The New Yorker. 1 (12): 22.
• — (May 16, 1925). «Laundry art : study in wash : further investigation of creative art in New York». The New Yorker. 1 (13): 22.
• — (May 16, 1925). «The tie that blinds». The New Yorker. 1 (13): 29.
• — (May 23, 1925). «Probing public murals : a further study of creative art in New York». The New Yorker. 1 (14): 22.
• — (May 30, 1925). «Sand : Impressionism : a further study of creative art in New York». The New Yorker. 1 (15): 22.
• — (June 6, 1925). «Shattered glass : a fugitive art in New York». The New Yorker. 1 (16): 16.
• — (July 1926). «The feminine touch». The Shrine. 1 (3): 57-?.

Filmography[edit]

• The Sophomore (1929) aka Compromised in the UK
• The Sport Parade (1932)
• The Half-Naked Truth (1932)
• Her Bodyguard (1933)
• Topper Takes a Trip (1938)
• Start Cheering (1938)
• Remember? (1939)
• Winter Carnival (1939)
• Zenobia (1939) aka Elephants Never Forget in the UK, and It’s Spring Again in the US
• Cloak and Dagger (1946)

Notes[edit]

External links[edit]

• Corey Ford on IMDb
• Rauner Special Collections Library: The Papers of Corey Ford
• Dartmouth Women’s Rugby: Corey Ford Rugby Clubhouse